Dennis D. Cordell (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas)

Submitted:  Tues, 14 December 1999


Dennis D. Cordell
Associate Dean for General Education
Professor of History
Department of History
Southern Methodist University
Dedman College
Box 750176
Dallas, Texas  75275-0176  USA

phone:   214-768-2203
fax:     214-768-4129
e-mail:  dcordell@mail.smu.edu


Social history and historical demography of Africa, with a focus on Chad,
Libya, Central African Republic, Algeria, Mali, and Burkina Faso. 
Specific research topics include: slavery, the slave trade, social
reproduction, low fertility, migration, and, problematizing population
history of the continent. 


Selected publications:

Hoe and wage: a social history of a circular migration system in West
Africa, 1900-1975.  Boulder, San Francisco, and London: HarperCollins /
Westview Press, 1996.  (with Joel W. Gregory and Victor Piché)

Population, reproduction, sociétés.  Perspectives et enjeux
de demographie sociale.  Mélanges en l'honneur de Joel Gregory.
Redaction par Dennis Cordell, Danielle Gauvreau, Raymond Gervais et
Céline LeBourdais. Montreal: Les presses de l'Université de
Montreal, 1993.

African population and capitalism: historical perspectives. 1st ed.  
Boulder: Westview Press, 1987.  (Second edition published by The
University of Wisconsin Press, 1994)  (Edited with Joel W. Gregory)  
[ Also includes 2 articles by Dennis Cordell: "African historical
demography: the search for a theoretical framework" (p. 14-32) and
"Extracting people from precapitalist production: French Equatorial Africa
from the 1880s to the 1930s" (p. 137-152). ]

Dar al-Kuti and the last years of the trans-Saharan slave trade.  Madison:
The University of Wisconsin Press, 1985.

"Pour une histoire de la famille en Afrique." Ménages et familles
en Afrique: approches des dynamiques contemporaines.  Rédaction par
Marc Pilon, Thérèse Locoh, Emilien Vignikin, et Patrice
Vimard. Paris: Centre français de Population et
Développement, 1997.  p. 55-74

"Crises économiques et dynamiques demographiques dans l'histoire
africaine: Le centre et l'est de la Centrafrique depuis 1850."  Crises et
population en Afrique: crises économiques, politiques d'ajustement
et dynamiques demographiques.  Rédaction par Jacques Vallin et Jean
Coussy. Paris: Centre français de Population et
Développement (CEPED), 1996. p. 161-179.

"Warlords and enslavement: a sample of slave-raiders from eastern
Ubangi-Shari, 1870-1920."  In  Africans in bondage: essays presented to
Philip D. Curtin on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the African
Studies Program.  Edited by Paul E. Lovejoy.  Madison: African Studies
Program and the University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. p. 335-365.